Monday, April 1, 2013

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend! Brad, Harper and I had
a fun time celebrating Easter with some friends.

On Friday Harper requested a picnic at the farm. I thought
it was a great idea and, with Easter only two days away, thought it may be fun
to do our egg hunt out there, too. So we invited our friends, the Aglaves, to
join us for the festivities.

The farm in Dover.

Balaji Aglave is Brad’s coworker and he and his family came
to the states from India just a couple of years ago. They live in the home on
the farm (the one Brad and I lived in when we first moved to Florida). As
practicing Hindus, Easter was a pretty foreign concept to them, and I’m afraid
that trying to explain it didn’t help any, either. No matter, they understood
the concept of picnics, toys and candy just fine so they were on board. Their
daughter, Taneshka, is four years old and she and Harper always have a nice
time together. Sunday was no exception.

Brad and Balaji took the girls to see the neighbor’s cows
while Madavi and I chatted under the large oak trees in the front of the
property. Harper was so looking forward to seeing the Easter Bunny in person but, unfortunately, he came by while they were gone and the girls
just missed him. He was kind enough to leave a couple of Easter bags with some toys
inside and took the time to hide some eggs and candy in their absence, so Harper's disappointment was short-lived. Maybe she'll have better luck next year.

Ready for some serious egg hunting with her all-purpose owl bag.

Taneshka was an expert egg hunter in no time.

It was so cute how Taneshka showed Harper the ropes and Harper tagged right along.

Going in for the kill.

Where did those curls come from?

Pretty Easter girl.

After the egg hunt we had a picnic lunch. Then the girls
tagged up the property with their new chalk that the Easter Bunny had brought and
ran around the acerage until they were exhausted. All in all, it was a pretty
successful day.

There was one tense chalk-related moment, but things were smoothed over pretty quickly.